Mickey Dewayne Tuggle, a 48-year-old White male from Nashville, Georgia, was shot and killed on March 17, 2026, in Berrien County. His daughter has said that her father was not part of a road-rage incident at all, and that the situation began when a woman followed Tuggle’s minor daughter home. According to the family’s account, Tuggle went outside to get the vehicle’s tag number, not knowing who was inside, and was then shot and killed.
The killing happened in connection with a
confrontation that authorities initially investigated after reports connected the shooting to a possible road-rage situation. However, Tuggle’s daughter has strongly disputed that description, saying her father was not involved in road rage and was instead responding as a parent after his minor daughter had been followed home. In that account, Tuggle was trying to identify the vehicle by getting the license plate number when the person in the vehicle opened fire.
Tuggle’s death left his family describing him not as an aggressor in a traffic dispute, but as a father who stepped in after his child came home frightened or concerned about being followed. What began with an unknown woman allegedly trailing his minor daughter to the family’s home ended with Tuggle fatally shot while trying to find out who was responsible. His family’s version places him outside the road-rage narrative entirely and frames his final moments around protecting his daughter and trying to gather information for accountability.
Publicly available information has not identified any confirmed arrest, suspect, charges, trial, or conviction connected to Mickey Dewayne Tuggle’s death. The case has been handled as a death investigation, and any final decision on criminal charges would depend on the evidence gathered by investigators and reviewed by prosecutors.
